Walking, Living, Learning! An Adventure In Personal & Professional Development

by Al Argo, Mark Sanborn (Foreword)

What do you get when a man decides to spend a year walking to improve his health, his relationships, his business, his mind, his spirit and his soul? Walking, Living, Learning! Is the result of Al Argo’s year of walking around Asia and the USA while listening to 66 books covering such topics as small business management, personal relationships, parenting skills, communication skills and much, much more. If you want to be successful, hang around successful people and read what successful people are reading and writing!Walking, Living, Learning! affords you a rare opportunity for a sneak peak of what Al Argo, a leading Personal & Professional Development Expert read (and the lessons he was learning) during a year of Walking, Living, Learning!In an easy to read daily format - everyone will find some great motivational, personal & professional development content here!

397 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 17, 2011

Reviews

[Jim Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Page after page of golden mental snacks!” Gymbeaux

Definition:
CliffsNotes (formerly Cliffs Notes, originally Cliff's Notes and often, erroneously, CliffNotes) are a series of student study guides. The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. (Note by me, the Detractors were right. I can honestly say and contrary to what most of the students around me were doing, that I used the Cliffs Notes only once and it involved something written by Shakespere. I could not get into the book of which I had no interest and the Cliffs Notes on the book was the ONLY way I could get through it.)

If this is a book review, why do I begin the report with a definition of CliffsNotes? The book IS a form of Cliff’s Notes on some of the most famous and beneficial books anyone could read regarding sales, leadership, motivation, goal setting, resolving conflicts, etc. etc. I am sure you have seen the posts on LikedIn and Facebook that provides a quote used by an author. You can find such worthy quotes on every page of this book, EVERY PAGE! In my opinion, it would be impossible NOT to learn something discussed on every page that could/should enhance your attitude and your future. If that is the case and I believe it is, why would you not want to read this gem?

Al Argo begins his book with an explanation as to why everyone should make it a habit of walking for exercise and for good long term health. There can be little argument with that premise. Then the book gets really interesting when Argo talks about listening to books while he walks that he did for one hour a day, EVERY DAY, FOR A YEAR! The book covers a year of his walking and he provides the critical elements of each of the books he listened to while walking. That makes it a form of CliffsNotes where you are provided with “the meat” of a book without reading the entire book referenced. I must provide this disclaimer that everyone should read. What should people read? You can obviously read fiction but in most cases, I find reading fiction is a case of using your time for enjoyment as compared to reading to learn and improve. The books discussed in this book are books designed to learn and improve.

I was shocked at how many of the books Argo references that I have also read. That is either a coincidence or I have selected some really good books to read as confirmed by the author’s choice to read them as well. It also gives me a great list of books that I can still read. Great minds…..

Here us a list of books discussed in Walking, Living, Learning! By Al Argo When possible they appear in BLUE meaning you can click on a link that will take you to a location for more information.
Walking Andrew Weil
Brain Rules John Medina
Position Yourself For Success Nido Qubein
Flawless Consulting Peter Block
How To Win Friends And Influence People Dale Carnegie
My Father, Maker Of The Trees Eric Irivuzumugabe
How To Win Customers And Keep Them Dr Michael LeBoeuf
What Makes An Effective Executive Peter Sticker
The Sales Advantage Dale Carnegie
Book Of Proverbs
The Magic Of Thinking Big Dr David Schwartz
Loving Your Child Is Not Enough Nancy Samarinda
The 7 Secrets Of Effective Fathers Ken Canfield
Inspire Any Audience Tony Heart
Kiplinger’s Planning Your Business Joseph Anthony
Spin Selling Neil Rackham
Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyisaki
Never Make The First Offer Donald Dell
Fit To Lead Christopher P Neck
The 360 Degree Leader John Maxwell
25 Ways To Win With People John Maxwell
The Speed Of Trust Stephen M R Covey
Think And Grow Rich Napoleon Hill
Sticker 366 Days of Insight And Motivation For Getting Things Done
25 Sales Secrets Of Highly Successful Salespeople Stephan Schiffman
How To Write Selling Humor Peter Mehlman And Mel Helitzer
The Personal Efficiency Program Kerry Gleason
Master Leaders: Revealing Conversations With 30 Leadership Greats George Barna
The Personal Efficiency Program, Kerry Gleason
The Small Business Bible, Steven Strauss
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Learned Optimism How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, Dr. Martin Seligman
Goals, Brian Tracy
How to WOW Frances Cole Jones
Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, Stephen Covey
Leadership & Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute
Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels Mark Littleberg
The Book Of Investing Wisdom: Classic Writings By Great Stock-Pickers And Legends Of Wall Street
The Winner’s Brain, Dr Jeff Brown And Dr Mark Fenske With Liz Neoprene
A Chicken’s Guide To Talking Turkey With Your Kids About Sex, Dr Kevin Leman And Kathy Bell
You can Read Anyone, Dr David J Lieberman
Up The Organization Robert Townsend
Management By Results, The Human Side Of Enterprise Douglas McGregor
The New Rules Of Marketing & PR 2.0 David Meerman Scott
Team Building Deaver Brown
The Little Big Things Tom Peters
How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman MD
Retail Superstars George Whalin
Twitter Power 2.0 Joel Comm
Eat That Frog Brian Tracy
A Perfect Mess Eric Abrahamson
Good To Great Jim Collins
How The Mighty Fall Jim Collins
Mastering Monday John Beckett
The Platinum Rule Dr Tony Alexandria And Dr Michael O’Conner
How To Communicate Like A Pro Midi Qubein
From Concept To Consumer Phil Baker
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Pyramid of Success, John Wooden
The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner.
Rethink by Ric Merrifield.
Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins.
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn.
Living Long, Living Good by Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara.
How To Think Like Einstein by Scott Thorpe.
100 Ways To Motivate Others by Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson.
Funny People by Steve Allen.
Attention: This Book Will Make You Money by Jim Kukral.
KaChing by Joel Comm.
On Becoming A Leader by Warren Bennis.
Stripped Bare Richard Branson

[Stephen Gledhill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Idea Amusement Park

Very interesting and full of ideas and gave me an appetite to read many other recommended books. This is a good book for business leaders and organizational leaders. The ideas I gleaned are ready to use